Today we're proud to introduce the Capitalize for Kids Investors Conference that will take place October 23-24 at Arcadian Court in Toronto, Canada. This is the first major conference of its kind in Canada so it's a great opportunity for those of you based there.

Their goal is to annually raise over $1 million for the Hospital for Sick Children. This year they'll be raising capital for the Centre for Brain and Mental Health. To learn more about the conference, head to the Capitalize for Kids website.

As you can see, this event is absolutely loaded with quality speakers in order to benefit the Hospital. In addition to the conference, if you join the cause you will also receive actionable investment ideas from several research partners throughout the year. They include Horizon Kinetics, Veritas Investment Research, Voyant Advisors and many more.

NYU Stern's student-run investment newsletter Evaluation is out with its second issue. This time around, they focus on distressed investing with interviews with Avenue Capital's Marc Lasry, as well as bankruptcy expert Dr. Ed Altman, among others.

Also featured are investment pitches from the Stern Investment Idea contest. Ideas include long Urban Outfitters (URBN), short Ulta Salon (ULTA), long Apple (AAPL), long Bonanza Creek Energy (BCEI), long Wisdom Tree (WETF), long Amerco (UHAL), and long FTI Consulting (FCN).

Embedded below is the second edition of NYU Stern's Evaluation investment newsletter:

Mick McGuire's hedge fund firm Marcato Capital Management has filed a 13D with the SEC on Life Time Fitness (LTM). This is a brand new position for the hedge fund and they now own 7.2% of the company with over 2.9 million shares.

The filing was made due to activity on May 12th. The activist investor included the typical boilerplate in the 13D and didn't outline any specific plans at this time.

Marcato's position is comprised of various stock options as they have calls referencing an aggregate of over 1.7 million shares with an exercise price of $30 and expire in July 2014. They also sold put options for the same underlying amount of shares with the same strike and expiration date. They've also entered into swaps.

Their trading activity log shows they were buying stock at the end of March around $47.80, the end of April around $47.74 and in the middle of may around $48.45.

Per Google Finance, Life Time Fitness is "operates multi-use sports and athletic, professional fitness, family recreation and spa centers in a resort-like environment."

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